194 touchdowns and 32,382 yards later, Cam Newton stepped away from the gridiron for good. The other side of the grind was where reality resided, one where the same expenses persisted, but with no longer the same income. Bills never stopped, and to quote him, “ those things never leave .”

It has been four years since his NFL salary stopped, but cracks were starting to show. Back in January, in a vulnerable moment, Newton admitted that he doesn’t feel like ‘Superman’ to his eight kids anymore. Following this, he dedicated an entire podcast episode in May, accounting for “the brutal math,” as he likes to call it. “ It’s the unfortunate truth that a lot of people do go broke or are not able to keep up with the means that they once knew to be life. They want to keep up with the Jon

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